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21 Episodes 0 - 2015
Episode 1
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
A coin collector and his brother start mail order coin businesses. They go bankrupt in 2008. After they're jailed, one plots murder of the judge and prosecutor.
Episode 2
Thu, Jan 22, 2015
In the Midwest, the head of a firm that buys and sells companies does business from his 12,000-square-foot home with a Playboy model at his side, but his arrest exposes a $216 million Ponzi scheme that sets a record for the state of Indiana.
Episode 3
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
Con man Rodney Hailey runs a fake green energy business and collects millions by scamming major corporations. When this environmental entrepreneur litters the front of his suburban home with a fleet of luxury cars it exposes the dirty money he makes on clean green fuel. And, for nearly 30 years, notorious cat burglar Blane Nordahl steals sterling silver in America's most expensive zip codes. His crimes spark a nationwide man hunt for the man behind an estimated $15 million precious metal meltdown.
Episode 5
Thu, Feb 12, 2015
A visionary entrepreneur with a lavish lifestyle solicits investors for a fund dealing in everything from strip clubs and real estate to currency, diamonds and mind control technology, but it turns out to be a $19 million Ponzi scheme.
Episode 7
Thu, Feb 26, 2015
In less than four years Claudio Osorio steals more than $40 million from investors and the U.S. government. To draw big money and big names into his con, Osorio casts himself as a wealthy, brilliant international business tycoon. In fact, he is an international crook. His company Inno Vida's financial statements to the SEC in March list more than $35 million in cash. In fact, there is only $185,000 in company accounts. As investments pour in, so do lawsuits. In 2012 Osorio is indicted. He pleads guilty to wire fraud and money laundering, is sentenced to 12 and a half years, and ordered to pay back $24 million.
Episode 8
Thu, Mar 5, 2015
Jordan Belfort, better known as the real-life "Wolf of Wall Street", is a smooth-talking salesman whose Stratton Oakmont brokerage house focuses mostly on penny stocks, a high-risk endeavor for investors. Belfort's minions offer investors a chance to purchase blue-chip stocks, but then pressure their clients to invest in questionable penny stocks, like karate schools and no-name tech companies. Stratton Oakmont is a resounding success and Belfort is soon making $50 million a year, but Stratton's business model involves pumping and dumping stocks. In 1994, the SEC is able to force Belfort out of Stratton and bars him from selling securities. In 1998, the FBI arrests him for money laundering and stock manipulation. Belfort pleads guilty to the charges against him, but agrees to help the FBI and the Department of Justice by snitching on his associates and employees. The government says Stratton took $200-million from over 1,500 investors. Belfort ultimately spends 22 months in a federal prison.
Episode 10
Fri, Jul 17, 2015
Episode 11
Fri, Jul 24, 2015
Vintage wine dealer Rudy Kumiawan came out of nowhere in the early 2000s and bought and sold millions of dollars' worth of rare vintages from prestigious vineyards, but some of them were later found to have come from California's Napa Valley.
Episode 12
Fri, Jul 31, 2015
Episode 13
Fri, Oct 16, 2015
A personal injury attorney pockets the winnings of his desperate clients and uses the cash to fuel his own over-the-top lifestyle. And a Kentucky oil man's wild scheme comes undone after he makes an appearance on a reality TV show.
Episode 14
Fri, Oct 23, 2015
A conman profits by selling the insurance policies of terminally ill patients. When his scheme is uncovered, investors say their last goodbyes to over $800 million dollars.
Episode 15
Fri, Oct 30, 2015
Kevin Halligen, a private security contractor is a James Bond wannabe who spins lies to desperate clients only to boost his ego and feed his greed.
Episode 16
Fri, Nov 6, 2015
A brash New York stock broker once known as the bad Boy of Wall Street gets sober and re-invents himself as an international power player. But has he really gone legit? Or is he addicted to greed?
Episode 95
Episode 96
A multi-million-dollar yacht, 80 sports cars, a Playboy-magazine-model girlfriend. Tim Durham is the picture of success as a fix-it and flip-it business king. But in the comfort of his 30,000 square foot home he's running a $200 million fraud.
Episode 98
Rich husband, beautiful wife, perfect life. Pamela Phillips and Gary Triano are Tucson's golden couple. But their life unravels in a fury of greed and hate. When Gary ends up dead, all eyes are on Phillips. Could she kill for money?
Episode 99
No investment idea is too exotic for visionary entrepreneur James "The Cash King" Duncan. He sets his sights on strip clubs, real estate, Iraqi currency, diamonds, and even mind control technology. And his over the top lifestyle is a devious facade built with empty promises, costing investors millions.
Episode 100
Barry Minkow is the con who keeps on conning. In a spectacular criminal career that begins in high school, he moves from being a Wall Street "wonder boy," to a devout man of God, to a heroic fraud fighter. But in every role he plays, Minkow proves the rule: once a fraud, always a fraud.
Episode 103
Infomercial kingpin Kevin Trudeau is making millions but the government says he's selling lies and they'll do whatever they can to shut him down. And, Remington Financial Group's decades long 26 million-dollar advance fee scheme is about to be exposed by an unlikely group of victims.
Episode 104
Ferrari Mike Banuelos takes musical artists' lives in the fast lane, but his promotions make his investors crash and burn. And Former IRS Agent Steven Martinez may seem like a normal accountant, but when he's caught in a $12 million fraud, he diverts taxpayer money to the ultimate crime - Murder.
Episode 106
Profiting millions from America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, David H Brooks lives the high life until evidence of his greed outshines his claims of patriotism.